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RE: telling setup to "get everything"
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "'David T-G'" <davidtg-cygwin at justpickone dot org>,"'CygWin Users' List'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:43:53 +1000
- Subject: RE: telling setup to "get everything"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of David T-G
> Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 5:41 AM
> To: CygWin Users' List
> Subject: telling setup to "get everything"
>
>
> Hi, all --
>
> In my playing with setup I never figured out how to tell it to force a
> download of everything, whether it thinks I have it or not, without
> having to manually click on many, many, many packages.
This is because setup.exe is not a mirroring tool, and 'getting
everything' is a mirroring exercise. Setup is designed to only download
the gap - the pacakges that are not available in the local cache but are
needed to perform your requested actions. You may find that clicking on
the top level 'default' comes close, or even does what you want though.
YMMV.
Rob
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